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This’ll Make You Toss Your Lunch
2004-02-25
Right Wing News emailed more than a 160 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a list of who they considered to be the "Dinner Guests From Hell". Representatives from the following 54 blogs responded...
Abode Of Amritas, Absinthe & Cookies, Annika’s Journal And Poetry, Betsy’s Page, Capitalist Lion, Cavalier’s Guardian Watchblog, Cobb, Cold Fury, Conservative Commentary, The Conspiracy To Keep You Poor & Stupid, Cornfield Commentary, Cox & Forkum, Curmudgeonly & Skeptical, Davids Medienkritik, Dissecting Leftism, Dodgeblogium, Ed Driscoll, Evil Pundit Of Doom!, Drumwaster’s Rants, Dumb Celebs, For The Sake Of Argument, Four Right Wing Wackos, Ghost of a Flea, The Greatest Jeneration, Gut Rumbles, Joyful Christian, Hoystory, Hud’s Blog-O-Rama, IMAO, Insults Unpunished, Jessica’s Well, Jihad Watch, JunkYardBlog, North Georgia Dogma, Porphyrogenitus, QandO, Res Ipsa Loquitur, Right Thinking From The Left Coast, Right Wing News, Sasha Castel, Serenity’s Journal, Sgt. Hook, A Small Victory, The SmarterCop, The Spoons Experience, Stark Truth, Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish, Tacitus, Trying To Grok, Up Yours & Other Helpful Tips, The Ville, Whacking Day, The Yale Diva, Zogby Blog

All bloggers were allowed to make anywhere from 1-20 selections. Rank was determined simply by the number of votes received.

The bloggers were also told that their selections had to be currently living people from anywhere in the world that they’d really dislike having to sit down with for a long 1 on 1 conversation over dinner. Furthermore, no dictators, terrorists, serial killers, or mass murderers could be selected.

Here are the selections that were made with the number of votes received following each choice in parentheses...

Honorable Mentions: Helen Thomas (5), Dan Rather (5), Rosie O’Donnell (5), Madonna (5), Dennis Kucinich (5), Bill O’Reilly (6), Molly Ivins (6), Jane Fonda (6), Ann Coulter (6), Bill Clinton (6)

20) Al Sharpton (7)
20) Paul Krugman (7)
20) Alec Baldwin (7)
17) Michael Jackson (8)
17) Janeane Garofalo (8)
17) Robert Fisk (8)
14) Sean Penn (9)
14) Ralph Nader (9)
14) Terry McAuliffe (9)
11) Ted Rall (10)
11) John Kerry (10)
11) Jimmy Carter (10)
9) Jesse Jackson (11)
9) Howard Dean (11)
8) Ted Kennedy (15)
7) Noam Chomsky (16)
6) Al Gore (17)
5) Jacques Chirac (18)
3) Barbra Streisand (19)
3) Al Franken (19)
2) Hillary Clinton (25)
1) Michael Moore (41)

Not news, but I thought it was a fun read. I think we could add Moby to that list.
Posted by:Lil Dhimmi

#6  Yasser and Suha can't come? Might be fun watching her and the Rev wrestling for a turkey leg.
Posted by: tu3031   2004-2-25 10:48:42 PM  

#5  CL - Oh I got it, CL, I was just funnin' ya - when someone says, "The Rev gotta eat" and the Rev in question is the one and only Big Al, well, I jes figured that would take some serious coin! If you're a gigolo, even only partially, heh, I'm jealous! Down 'n dirty serious! What a gig!

Ship - I agree - but does he know just how funny he is? Heh, he can have Haiti, too. Just imagine how much weight he'd lose if he spent a coupla years there... boggles, no? There's only one Al, but, apparently, many phools who donate money so he can live in hotels with Room Service... The end of the campaign trail must be one helluva let-down for the good Rev Al!
Posted by: .com   2004-2-25 4:36:34 PM  

#4  .com, are you accusing me of being just another free spending gigolo from Boston? Ok, it's partly true. But I haven't lived in Boston--or married into money--in more than twenty years.

Read the WS piece and you'll get it. It's not the politics, it's the entertainment.

"Rev gotta eat"

Posted by: Classic_Liberal   2004-2-25 4:28:01 PM  

#3  Hell, .com the Rev. would be my favorite of the top 20... at least he's sometimes funny. And he is going to save Haiti and save us a lot of dough.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-2-25 4:25:35 PM  

#2  Offering to feed the Rev Al, eh? You prolly have a Donk Guilt Trip over the salary you make... or did you marry into it? ;-)
Posted by: .com   2004-2-25 3:00:09 PM  

#1  Weekly Standard of Feb 23/04 has got a sympathetic piece on Al Sharpton:

The Confessions Of Al Sharpton

After reading that, I'd be happy to have the Rev over for dinner. And as the article points out, "Rev gotta eat".
Posted by: Classic_Liberal   2004-2-25 2:26:00 PM  

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